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thanks for your help i have built manymanymany pcs and never had this trouble. the motherboards will not switch on the psu to boot up...they just get enough power to light an led for a few seconds when the psu is first switched on using the psu switch, then nothing else i do will get them to...

macrium doesnt work either, same basic error (semaphore timeout and/or "cant read sector" while copying the mbr) still reading guides for clonezilla and dd, theyre complicated so im just reading and rereading just one question in the meantime: this windows 7 pro hdd is MBR, not gpt, so could...

hi thanks for the reply i only read about macrium in the image backup thread and read its website, i havent tried using it yet it still just seems crazy that it even requires an extra program to do this simple stuff, why cant a commandline function copy all the necessary data? surely people did...

tldr: the programs that are supposed to do this suck and i just want a simple free way to make a bootable clone of an ntfs win7 pro 64 partition onto a new blank hdd. (anti-win7 googlebots need not reply) i searched for information on this forum and i might have just missed it but i couldnt...